Re: [Boost-users] Why intrusive_ptr destructor can throw exceptions?

Pavel Syomin wrote:

Hello!

I found another difference between shared_ptr and intrusive_ptr behavior:

* shared_ptr destructor never throw exceptions; * intrusive_ptr destructor can throw exceptions.

In my opinion, ~intrusive_ptr() should not throw exceptions too, because current behavior is much complicated and fraught with memory leak bugs.

~intrusive_ptr never throws any exceptions on its own; if intrusive_ptr_release doesn't throw, neither will the destructor.